Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. Satya strikes again.

Acquisition 71

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The use cases in practice though, are mostly limited to replacing stock photos with AI generated images. According to Gartner’s “AI hype cycle”, generative AI is at the peak of inflated expectations ( source ). Can startups build a venture scale model using open source tech or someone else’s API?

Generative AI 195

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence API Vertical 195

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By then the open-source movement had really developed. We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations. Same with university data.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then Robinhood halted trading of stocks popular with retail users of Wallstreetbets (and Discord temporarily shut down their server prompting the community to search for uncensorable alternatives ). . Ambitious open source operating systems/app store alternatives (e.g. All this and we’re barely one month into 2021!

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Some websites offer free vector graphics, free icons, free stock photos, and more. You can also save on your office equipment like copiers and computers if you buy used ones. Use Free Online Resources.

Software Review 191

Software Review Entrepreneur Cost Cofounder 191

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

LP 311

LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. Don’t get me wrong, AI is no silver bullet.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

HFTs routinely pay millions of dollars in rent to co-locate their machines next to the New York Stock Exchange data center to get the lowest latency data possible. synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. 6) Identity Issuance .

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Any failure keep stock availability of hot items during the holiday season is a lost sale; holiday shoppers won’t wait. Aron is a veteran eBay seller, former eBay employee, and a longtime author and editor in the e-commerce and open source spaces. Aron Hsiao, Ph.D. is head of communications at Terapeak.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review United States Stock Open Source 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s an auto industry example using DataLayer variables and stock variables: Variables can feed variables. We took a look at dataLayer variables and used stock values. If [bad thing] happens, track [bad thing] Tracking out of stock items. Tracking the amount of money lost to stock failure errors. What’s the price range?

Agile 90

Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the tools are being democratised (from OpenAI’s invite-only approach to Stable Diffusion’s open source disruption), new APIs are making it possible for developers to create novel products using these technologies. The application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing.

Generative AI 204

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Video Architecture 204

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In fact, one could say that the sagging stock price of Facebook and stories about lack of VC funding for consumer startups represents , in one microcosm, the story of Web 2.0: He said that Flickr taught us all about social applications--and gave birth to Web 2.0

Web 127

Web Curation Open Source Demand 127

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #20- Tesla also has its open-source patents, which means they're available for anybody to work with. Thanks to Cody Crawford, Low Offset ! #12- 12- Apple & Steve Jobs.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Many angels were forced to fold given their tremendous losses in real estate and the stock market.

Software Review 283

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

API 60

API Software Review Technical Review Startup 60

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. While one of the darlings of the last 10 years, Facebook, is getting pummeled, the enterprise market is back in the spotlight.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

Start Up Blog

JULY 7, 2014

It’s an open-source kind of thing so there will be no Internet companies. No business is ever going to do anything on it because businesses won’t work on an untrusted environment. There won’t ever be any e-commerce. There will never be any internet payments. No one will put their credit card on the internet.

Valuation 96

Valuation Internet Stock New York 96

View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Thorvalds similarly helped create and evangelize the open source software movement, though in doing so he notably never created a significant company as can be true for some missionary types. The Crusader. There are a few parallels between the missionary and the crusader.

Detroit 367

Detroit SEC Founder Affiliate 367

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ConversionXL

JULY 24, 2014

Inventory Management – Stay Properly Stocked & Reduce Overstock. Use An Open Source Predictive Analytics Product. If you already have the technical talent in-house, there are several open source predictive analytics platforms that will allow you to create more custom solutions. These platforms include: R.

Analytics 118

Analytics eCommerce Conversion Technical Review 118

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

Early Stage 48

Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. The network of stores allows Walmart to limit its stock in any given store and share managerial expenses across the network. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Even if you do look at it to see if it supports your suspicions, don’t put too much stock in it. In contrast, visitors completely ignore stock photos of “real” people. This blog post is a perfect example of what may happen when using stock photography. We typically ignore these types of heat maps. Free heat-mapping tools.

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Driven by the return to normalcy in the stock market, at long-last signs of life in the residential and commercial real estate markets, and most excitingly by veritable boom-time conditions in “Web 3.0” America is getting its risk-taking mojo back. But the modern technology world is just not built for this model of investing.

Social Network 63

Social Network Technical Review Stock Early Stage 63

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As COVID-19 lockdown continues, more and more avid rock climbers are stocking up on wooden studs and screws to take the climbing experience into their own homes. Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes.

Artificial Inteligence 110

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 110

Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

Crypto’s open source nature enables anybody to build on top of existing code. . In the same way that the first employees of a start-up not only get a much higher number of stock options but also a much lower entry price than later-stage employees for taking on early risk, the same logic should be applied to crypto platforms.

Networking 113

Networking Government Stock Options Later Stage 113

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Good look at how Facebook’s stock price impacts the company and its employees (beyond the obvious) – [link]. Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family – [link]. Real estate can be a great investment if you invest in it for the right reasons – [link]. Is Busyness Bad for Business?

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe. We pride ourselves on the speed of testing hypotheses and reading those tests.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). There are personal factors that come into play like real estate value, stock market activity, etc. Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? (0:14:15).

Angel Investor 302

Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

500px – non-cheesy stock photography. Docracy – open source legal documents. Shopify – for ecommerce and online stores. Themeforest – if you need something custom, start by buying a $30 theme and editing it. Glyphicons – icon set. TextIt – create SMS applications without programming (e.g.

Software Review 56

Software Review Founder Widget SMS 56

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In a large company, stock incentives tend to work more like bonuses than as motivators for the greater cause of the business. A typical employee at Google isnt going to increase the value of his Google stock significantly by working twice as hard or efficiently. An employee is normally paid a salary or wages.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). There is no real rule to what a particular series of preferred stock is called.

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70